244 xnoiuin/E. 



tegulse with dark medial line ; patagia with black streak near 

 upper edge ; fore and mid tibiae with slight black streaks ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous mixed wilh 

 ochreous and in parts irrorated with black and suffused with fuscous, 

 the basal half of costal area and the inner margin bej-ond ante- 

 medial line more ochreous ; subbasal line represented by a very- 

 oblique ochreous striga from costa defined on each side by slight 

 black stria3 ; a downcurved ochreous fascia with brown line in 

 middle from subcostal nervure at antemedial line to vein 1 near 

 base : some silvery grey above vein 1 before the antemedial line, 

 which is indistinctly double filled in with ochreous, oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold, then obsolescent and strongly retracted to 

 inner margin ; a curved whitish streak on medial area above inner 

 margin ; orbicular narrow, oblique, with red-brown centre and 

 whitish annulus defined at sides by black, with a yellowish bar 

 on its outer edge and oblique whitish fascia on and above vein 2 

 from its lower extremity to postmedial line ; the extremity of 

 median nervure and bases of veins 4, 3 streaked with whitish ; 

 reniform defined by a whitish and black bar on inner side, its 

 upper extremity produced to a long oblique point defined by 

 yellowish white and by blavk on outer side ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with yellowish, indistinct and bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique sinuous, incurved below vein 6 and at submedian 

 fold ; a diffused oblique violaceous whitish fascia from apex to 

 below vein 6 ; subterminal line w T hitish, from the pale fascia to 

 submedian fold where it is angled inwards, slightly excurved at 

 middle with some dark brown suffusion before it and black streaks 

 in the interspaces, short above, longer below ; a fine whitish line 

 befoi-e termen on which there is a series of black points; cilia 

 red-brown intersected with whitish and with a fine pale line at 

 base. Hind wing hyaline white, a dark terminal line from apex 

 to vein 2; cilia tipped with brown towards apex; the underside 

 with the costa slightly irrorated with brown except towards base, 

 a terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Honduras (Dyson), 1 <5 ; Jamaica (Gosse), 1 S ', Cuba, 

 Santiago (Schaus), 3 tf , 2 £ • Exp. 32-38 millim. 



3861. Prodenia androgea. 



Nocttia androgea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 42, pi. 310. f. D (1782); Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am.. Het.i. p. 269. 

 Noctua niarmorca, Sepp, Ins. Surinam, p. 109, pi. 51 (1S48). 



2 . Head and tegulae red-brown ; palpi ochreous with brown 

 patches on the joints; lower part of frons ochreous; an ochreous 

 bar between antennas and another on vertex of head ; teguhe with 

 black and ochreous medial line and ochreous tips; thorax ochreous 

 mixed with rufous, the teguhe with blackish scales near edges ; 

 fore tarsi whitish, the mid and hind tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing reddish brown 

 suffused with fuscous and irrorated with black, with a large oblique 



